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I find myself in a situation where I need to make a DLL for DBPro.

When it's done I'll be releasing it to the community, and will support it to the best of my abilities. It will probably lead to the creation of other DLLs along the way.

I have VB.Net 2008 Express, and C#.Net 2008 Express, which I'm pretty comfortable with using.

So is there some instructions or a resource that would help me figure out how to make a DBPro DLL using either of these languages? There have been links I've found during my search, but most of them lead to other sites that no longer exist, or to resources that are very far out of date.

Thanks.

Anyone?

I'm not to familiar with VB.net and C#.net yet( C++ for life! ). But, even with those languages in thier "Express editions", you would still need find a way to create your own DLL string resource table to allow DarkBasic Pro to know what commands your DLL has. As far as I remmember, the Express editions doesn't allow you to create a string resource like the Standard and higher versions do. I remmember seeing third party tools offered here on the forums, way back when, that would allow you to edit the dll's resource table directly to enter your own strings. Dunno what search terms to use to search for them on google though...

I would suggest if you know C procedural or C++ object orientated programming, try creating a simple dll for dbpro in C/C++ first. Go into the Dark Basic Professional Help File -> Technical Documents -> Third Party Commands( That's what I learned from ). If you can successfully create a dll for dbpro that way, then it should be trivial enough to find "like ways" with the other vb and C# langauges to create a dll for dbpro.

Again, basically my main concern here is with the express editions which wont allow you to create string resource tables. Unless something changed lately...

You can but you don't get a pretty spreadsheet style editor for the table. It is just the raw resource code with the strings. You have to right click it and say "View as Text" or something. It's silly, really I don't know why they don't just let us use the regular editor.

Wow all this time I was thinking it was impossible with Express. Learnt somt'n knue. Thanks!

Well, if you can read through my babble... the Third Party Commands documentation should help for starters.

Ok. Thanks.